get oprah in here

Friend, Lover and Partner to your spouse...
Protector, Provider and Role-Model to your children.

Ones more Bigbuck - with pictures.... - * just kidding * - I think you are right in summing it up

And Matt, did you read the answers we could choose from in your poll?

What makes a man....DING_A_LING......ooohhhh you mean deeper than that. Sorry.ughhhhh you know thats hard to put in words. Its not actually certain things that make a man. Its a combination of everything. Every decesion you make, every stone you turn, every road you travel. A man is someone who can admit when thier wrong, can cry over Old Yellow and stomp your ass for laughing at them for it.

Let me tell you a little story......when i was a little dew...yes i was little once.
I use to work to make a few dollars, so like the other kids i could go play pool and pinball at the country store down the street. Not that you could tell it now, but i was always the small kid. The one that got picked on. There was a guy that lived across the road from the store. WE played ball in front of his house everyday. Everyday something would get started by the bully kids, and somehow i would end up the one with his ass kicked. Then the next day i would be right back. The mans wife would plead for him to go help me because i was so small compaired to the other kids.EVEN though we were roughly all the same age. He would tell his wife.....that boy has more balls than any of them kids. He said you just watch, he will not back down and if it comes to a fight, then a fight is what he will give them. Then tommorrow come back with his black eye and play again. So after becoming a young man he told me this story, and his wife said she never understood why i would not just walk away, why did i always fight back even though i knew what the out come would be.

The answer......i could'nt. and to this day still can't. why, BECAUSE I'M A MAN DAMMIT.

P.S. no more drinking and posting for you, you cant read all this with a hangover anyways.

"Manners maketh the man"..or somesuchshit !!

The answer...

OF COURSE! (slaps head)

The real question is, does it matter???

Everyone's got their own little formulated opinion in their head of "manliness"...
In reality, male or female, every person is different, and has different ways of going about doing things, thinking, acting, behaving.. whatever.
To let in all of these outside ideas of how you SHOULD be.. to let them influence you.. makes you untrue to yourself.
Following your own ideas (no matter how crazy they are, or "unmanly" you think they are) is what makes you just that much more interesting and unique. If it's not what the world labels as being a man.... then so what? I have a feeling you'll feel much better about your life if you do things your way, rather than trying to please anyone else.

Ugh... this is what I get for thinking as soon as I wake up.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is:
My idea of a man is simply a male figure, preferably one that's not hung up on trying like mad to be a man, but rather one that knows himself and what he wants despite how that makes him look.

jackassness (is that even a word?)

Oh! Let's use the word "Asshattery"

I like that word.

Men are just boys that wanna be men but don't wanna have to "grow-up" to get there .......and why should I "grow-up"?

Matt you need to answer this question yourself. First of all you need to be comfortable with who you are yourself. Only at that point can you accept things as they are and move on with your life.
Only then with the self confidence that brings with it will a women who also is self confident and sure of herself will seek you out and be drawn to you, and in the long run be comfortable beside you.

The media brainwashes everyone about what is right and what is wrong within our society. But usually that depends on what commercial products need to be made popular. A favorite line from a Rolling Stones song (You can't be a man because you don't smoke the same cigarettes as me!)

But you need to be comfortable with yourself, first and foremost.

If not there will always be a question in the back of your mind, as to why, or how, or with whom!

Hope these thoughts help.

rather then typing my answer here I refer toKittie's post.

She kinda describes the same what I think

after carefull formulation, and extensive research i have uploaded bucks formula into the DEWSTEW 3000 and then refined the crude oils with the help of a few filters in the PS version CSZ5800 (goverment top secret )shhhhh. This is what i have come up with so far.



I should have known, damn'it pilgrim , now you go get them-thar<--(one word) bloomers off and slap on your working britches. OOOOHHHHH gotta go if my wife see's me typing she will kick my......coming honey

What was the question again?